China now fields more than 400 whole-body humanoid models, over half the global total. In the first half of 2026 alone, 116,000 new companies registered in the humanoid space, up 9.5 per cent year on year. Nowhere is the momentum sharper than in Guangdong, where ten technically distinct humanoid makers have converged into what local … Read more
On 20 August in Shenzhen, Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei sat down with Wen Shugang, chairman of China Huaneng Group, and Zhong Guodong, the state power giant’s general manager. The meeting was framed around national strategy and the front edge of industry, but Ren used it to make a sharper point about where China’s … Read more
Ahead of the 2026 World Robot Conference (WRC 2026), the Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (AIRS) announced that AIRSEAI, the embodied-intelligence open-source project it initiated, has formally joined the LF AI & Data Foundation under the Linux Foundation. It will publish its roadmap and community plan at the conference for global developers, research … Read more
A short video posted by a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson on overseas social platforms turned a homegrown humanoid sorting robot into an unexpected hit. On 12 August, a Shenzhen Evening News reporter visited the Shenzhen land-mail processing centre to see what the machine can actually do. A humanoid that handles a messy sorting line On … Read more
On 18 August, the Shenzhen Municipal People’s Government and China Telecom Corporation signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement. Shenzhen Party secretary Jin Lei and deputy secretary and mayor Qin Weizhong met China Telecom chairman Ke Ruiwen and general manager Liu Guiqing and jointly witnessed the signing. Jin and Qin thanked China Telecom for its active … Read more
Shenzhen’s artificial-intelligence sector is pushing hard to go global, and Russia has become one of the association’s priority outward markets. That is what Zhang Zhehao, deputy secretary general for international relations at the Shenzhen Artificial Intelligence Industry Association, told Shenzhen Press Group on 17 August, local time in Kazan, where he attended the fourth “Rostok: … Read more
On 5 August, Dobot released Lumeng, which it calls the world’s first embodied all-habitat humanoid robot. Built around the idea of embodied all-habitat, the product aims to break the fixed boundaries of space, scene and function that constrain traditional robots, upgrading humanoids from single-purpose voice-command tools into intelligent agents that fit into homes, education and … Read more
Shenzhen is sending a clear signal to the global robotics community. On the eve of the 2026 World Robot Conference, the Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (AIRS) announced that AIRSEAI, its open-source embodied-intelligence project, has formally joined the LF AI & Data Foundation under the Linux Foundation. It is the first technical project … Read more
Tianyancha records show that on 11 August, Guangdong Maoyou Robot was established with registered capital of 10 million yuan, based in Maonan district of Maoming. The shareholder structure is clear: Maoming Binhai Holdings subscribed 9 million yuan for a 90 per cent stake, and Shenzhen UBTECH Technology subscribed 1 million yuan for 10 per cent. … Read more
Honor unveiled the Robot Phone in the Greater Bay Area on 12 August, pairing a four-degree-of-freedom titanium gimbal with an on-device agent OS, with pre-orders past 400,000 units and prices from 9,9